Love and Collaboration in Practice: Perspectives on Co-teaching a Graduate Seminar during a Pandemic
In this turbulent yet potentially transformative time marked by a global pandemic and urgent calls for racial justice and equity in society, we find it imperati... More
The Anthropology of Time: A Reading List In-the-Making
Introductions, Invitations Given the renewed scholarly attention to time and temporality, we present a reading list on the anthropology of time. This list is an... More
Syllabus Archive: Teaching Ethnographic Research Methods
How do we actually do fieldwork? This is a question that we seek to help our students of all levels discover in our courses, but even in graduate school curricu... More
Teaching Cultural Anthropology as a Community-Building MOOC-Style Course
This post highlights the introductory cultural anthropology syllabus prepared by Rebecca Howes-Mischel and Megan Tracy, which they organized in similar style to... More
A Complement to the Syllabus Archive: Primiano, Krishnan, and Sangaramoorthy's “Plagues, Pathogens, and Pedagogical Decolonization”
Through the Syllabus Archive on Teaching Tools, we have worked to put together different opportunities for people to share their approaches to emergent topics i... More
Syllabus Archive: Anthropology and the “Making” of Arts and Technologies
Making is central to knowing. Doing ethnographic fieldwork makes this obvious. It is less obvious in the classroom, however, where sitting and reading texts tog... More
Syllabus Archive: Critical Ethnographies
What is ethnography, and how do we teach about ethnography/ethnographies so that students understand the complexity of analysis? There have been many scholars w... More
Syllabus Archive Project: An Introduction
As someone newly immersed in a university teaching environment after shedding my role as a graduate student, I was excited, yet unsure of how to approach design... More
Teaching Ethnography in the Heart of Government
From the point of view of the governed—citizens and non-citizens alike—the way government operates can seem like a black box. Despite talk of transparency, the ... More
Citation Matters: An Updated Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology
Scholarship in environmental anthropology has historically asked questions about how humans relate to the interconnected biophysical and cultural processes unfo... More